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Sarah McQuaid

When: Thu., Sept. 18, 8 p.m. 2014Price: $8-$16

Having spent stretches in the United States, Spain, France, Ireland and England, singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid pulls those environments together into a broad take on folk beauty. She can adapt her alto and fingerpicking to both Appalachian ballads and centuries-old French albas, but McQuaid’s style seems to draw mostly from her time in the British Isles. She reworks traditional Irish numbers as well as she conveys somber dreams that suggest Nick Drake. —Spencer Griffith